[Closed] Best adventure films

Meru is amazingly, and Free Solo out later this year looks pretty damn good too

Yup, Meru is brilliant - genuinely gripping story telling and the scale of what they achieved boggles the mind.

Maybe a bit of the track but the Barkley Marathons documentary is a good watch also - I guess its adventurous when you go of to complete an ultramarathon with no real idea of where you are going?!

The thoroughly modest and compelling Hooks

Romancing the Stone

+1 for Meru and Barkley Marathons. Very different, but both fascinating.

There's quite a few on netflix and amazon if you dig around, but Redbull TV is the best source of adventure films i find.

Crossing the DItch trailer

Paragliding Everest

The Road from Karakol.

Hooks is also a great film.

The Road from Karakol

I've been trying to remember the name of that one. Very interesting that one, well worth the 25 mins to watch it

Another vote for Hooks.

I also like The Adventure Dispatch with Steve Doom Fasbinder,Rock climbing,fatbikes & pack rafting in a 6 minute film,it's on YouTube

spawnofyorkshire

I had to google all I could remember about it to find the title! Never found any more stuff by him. He’d be great fun on a big trip.

Very sad just read he died whilst climbing in ****stan. He seems to have a life well lived sadly cut short doing what he obviously loved. Depressing turn to the day. Sorry.

A few years old now, but I really liked Megamoon

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Dodo's Delight (from Reel Rock 10?) is good fun - well worth half an hour

Also from Reel Rock ... A Line Across The Sky

North Of The Sun is good too http://www.northofthesun.no/

Looking forward to Dawn Wall - think it's out later this year

Some old ones

"touching the void" and the "beckoning silence"

Ride the divide (although the director concentrates mainly on the more boring characters and largely ignores the interesting ones)

Valley uprising.

Ooh, good thread. Love this stuff. Cheers for the OP.

Looking forward to this, the last 10 seconds or so make my palms sweat...

edit: how do you embed video?

Great recommendations so far. As a climber really looking forward to Free Solo and especially Dawn Wall later this year!

Deliverance?

Masters of Stone (any of them)

Cold Haul

Most things by Alistair Lee

A Kurdish Movie is rather entertaining. Worth the few quid it costs.

rachel

Great thread this.

Distilled - Scottish winter climbing

Made to be broken - ultra running.

Under an arctic sky - surfing in the arctic.

Loved Under an Arctic Sky.

OP, I might be being too harsh, but is Frozen North not a rip-off of Iohan, just with big money and big cinematography?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wAPztOO2U#

He has many hours of adventures!

Thanks bavariangaz for starting the thread and for the Frozen Road Heads-up.

Thanks Malvern Rider for Hooks - it's a favorite of mine one of the few films I can watch over and over, even getting to the end and starting again straight away, a gem. (I'm not even sure why - I found his Japan video quite boring.)

Thanks Marin for the "The Road from Karakol", new to me and realy enjoyed it.

Thanks Ready for "Megamoon", new to me and a cracking watch.

Thanks matt_outandabout for "9 Rivers"!

Thanks SimonR for Dodo’s Delight, I'd watched them a few times, but they easily stand rewatching. Too be honest they're kind of too good. So much interest and excitement in activities that are right up my street it's actually wearing. Even the downtime is filled with terrific music!

That's all I've watched so far, but I'm working down the thread and every time I have a spare half hour I'm coming back to it for more viewing pleasure.

Really appreciate people taking the trouble to share such terrific content.

Into twin galaxies - Redbull TV - 1hr - Top adventurers Ben Stookesberry, Sarah McNair-Landry and Erik Boomer are on an extreme mission in Greenland. Using kite skis, the trio tow their white-water kayaks 1,000km over the Greenland Ice Cap to reach the northernmost river ever paddled – and then the challenge gets even tougher. With spectacular cinematography, remote wilderness and a large amount of suffering, this film shows what it’s like to be far out of your comfort zone.

Stumped - purchase via vimeo - 30 mins - Maureen Beck may have been born missing her lower left arm, but that hasn't stopped her from going hard. She pushes her “stump” to the limit, takes whippers on 5.12, and crushes overhanging boulders, while shotgunning beers between burns. She certainly isn’t making excuses for herself though, ”I don’t want to just be a good one armed climber,” says Beck. “I want to be a good climber.”

Safety third - purchase via vimeo - 30 mins - For most climbers, it’s safety first. But Brad Gobright is definitely not most climbers. Fuelled by day-old doughnuts and unhindered by a fear of falling, this young talent is pushing the limits in his backyard playground of Eldorado Canyon, Colorado. Having survived a few big scares, Brad is determined to make his boldest ascent yet – a first-ever free solo of one of Eldo’s most exposed and difficult routes.

Indy Jones? Alan Quatermain?

Mondo Enduro!